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Pizza places in Houston County, TX
How Houston County, TX compares with other counties and the U.S. for pizza places: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 4.
- Listings
- 4
- 3 chain locations (75%)
- Official establishments
- 14
- All limited-service restaurants
- Household spending a year
- $26.4M
- On food away from home · $3,312 a household
- Spending per listing
- $6.6M
- 30% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.0
- 37% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 22,316
- +1.1% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 4 pizza places in Houston County. That is 5.0 per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 8.0.
At $3,312 per household (19% below the U.S. average), households in Houston County spend about $26.4M a year on food away from home. That is about $6.6M of household spending for each pizza place on map listings, 30% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. That spending covers all food away from home, which pizza places share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 14 businesses with payroll in Houston County classed as limited-service restaurants. That is one for every 570 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S. The official count takes in all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places: fast food and sandwich shops are counted too. Official counts also show 6 one-person businesses without payroll.
Population estimates show Houston County grew 1.1% from 2020 to 2025, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 4 pizza places on map listings, Houston County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Houston County compares
The same measures for Texas and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all food away from home by the pizza places counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Houston County | Texas | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.0 | 6.5 | 8.0 |
| Spending per listing | $6.6M | $6.1M | $5.1M |
| Households per official establishment (all limited-service restaurants) | 570 | 451 | 478 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.0% | +6.1% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.1% | +8.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on food away from home | $3,312 | $3,970 | $4,070 |
| Median household income | $56,531 | $78,476 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 64 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 12 → 14All limited-service restaurants
- Employees, 2023
- 276
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $3.8M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 6All limited-service restaurants with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 43 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 5The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as limited-service restaurants in Houston County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3. These official figures cover all limited-service restaurants, not only pizza places.
Population and households in Houston County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 22,316+1.1% since 2020
- Households
- 7,983
- Median age
- 44.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 1,231 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 18
- Median household income
- $56,531+49.1% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $77,793
- Median home value
- $164,900
- Jobs located here
- 5,116
- Daytime population
- 19,245Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top counties in Texas
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bastrop County, TX | 90 | 14 | 3.8 | $10.6M | +21.3% | #10 of 2,090 |
| 2Guadalupe County, TX | 90 | 32 | 4.9 | $8.6M | +15.8% | #13 of 2,090 |
| 3Waller County, TX | 86 | 10 | 5.5 | $7.5M | +21.9% | #30 of 2,090 |
| 4Aransas County, TX | 83 | 5 | 4.0 | $9.1M | +9.3% | #50 of 2,090 |
| 5Lampasas County, TX | 82 | 5 | 6.0 | $6.7M | +9.0% | #59 of 2,090 |
| 6Wood County, TX | 81 | 8 | 4.3 | $8M | +10.3% | #63 of 2,090 |
| 7Burnet County, TX | 81 | 12 | 5.7 | $6.9M | +15.2% | #66 of 2,090 |
| 8Wise County, TX | 81 | 17 | 6.8 | $6.2M | +21.5% | #69 of 2,090 |
| 9Wilson County, TX | 80 | 9 | 4.9 | $8.6M | +12.2% | #78 of 2,090 |
| 10Caldwell County, TX | 79 | 7 | 4.2 | $8.5M | +20.0% | #93 of 2,090 |
| Houston County, TX | Not scored | 4 | 5.0 | $6.6M | +1.1% |
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Questions
How many pizza places are in Houston County, TX?
Houston County has 4 pizza places on map listings as of September 2026. The listings count pizza restaurants. Official counts show 14 businesses with payroll classed as limited-service restaurants in 2023. That count covers all limited-service restaurants (fast food and sandwich shops included), not only pizza places. Another 6 one-person businesses have no payroll, by official counts.
How much do households in Houston County, TX spend on food away from home?
About $26.4M a year, or $3,312 per household. That is 19% below the U.S. average (an index of 81, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 4 pizza places on map listings, it comes to $6.6M per pizza place. The spending figure covers all food away from home, not only pizza places. It is estimated from the incomes of the 7,983 households in Houston County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Houston County, TX compare with the U.S. for pizza places?
Houston County has 5.0 pizza places per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 8.0. Spending per pizza place is $6.6M, 30% above the U.S. figure of $5.1M. At the national ratio of pizza places to household spending, Houston County would have about 5, against 4 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 570 households, against one for every 478 across the U.S.
How fast is Houston County, TX growing?
Population estimates put Houston County at 22,316 people in 2025, up 1.1% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 7,983 households. The median household income in Houston County is $56,531 a year, 30% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 49.1% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Houston County has no market score for pizza places: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 4.
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